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You just listened to the WhyWork episode, now listen to the WhyNOT Wisdom Shot.

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Oftentimes, workplaces are implementing things that don't have evidence to support them when

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they're looking at something as fundamental and basic as manual task risk management.

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Okay, why?

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Well, they may have learned and may have been borrowing from other disciplines like exercise

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science, which is great in use when working with somebody one-on-one, but doesn't have the

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same crossover in industrial settings.

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Things like just doing the postural assessment or things like looking at musclar contraction

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activity with electrodes, trying to understand these assessments or looking at training

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in manual handling behavioral-based training.

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Okay, why not?

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Well, the evidence does not translate to populations of workers in industrial settings.

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It's not looking at the true interaction of risk factors that's really meaningful, including

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the cognitive, psychosocial, environmental exposures in the work system.

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And those physical aspects need to be translated to a whole of a person and a whole of a job,

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not just integrated by a single hazard or a single muscle belly or an energy source.

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Okay, what's the verdict?

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Go back to basics, consult with your workers, understand that work design and redesign must happen

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in a very concerted effort to first identify the business objective and second to start

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understanding what's the real human performance issues based on the realities of work and

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start from there to redesign based on human performance, productivity, and integrate all

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of that activity with other business units, find a shared way to benefit, if you will,

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and to advance redesign throughout the entire structure of business.

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You heard the verdict, advance.